Shifting-rail for buggy-seats



(No Model.)

S. R. PARKER 85 P. P. DEVENY.

SHIFTING RAIL FOR BUGGY SEATS.

No. 280,660. Patented July 3, 1883.

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SAMUEL R. PARKER AND PAUL P. DEVENY, OF PLYMOUTH, OHIO.

SHlFTlNG-RAIL FOR BUGGY-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,660, dated July 3, 1883.

Application filed May 5,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL R. PARKER and PAUL I. DEVENY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Plymouth, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shifting-Rails for Buggy-Seats; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, in

' which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buggyseat provided with our improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the top rail removed, but leaving the lazy-back in position on the seat. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the seat with both the lazy-back and top rail removed; .and Fig. 4 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, through one of the seat-irons, showing the manner of attaching the top rail and lazy-back.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention relates to the seats of buggies and other vehicles; and it consists in the con1 bination, with the seat, of a removable top rail for the attachment of a vehicle-top, and, also, of a removable lazy-back, which may be used either in conjunction with or without the top rail, as and for the purpose hereinafter more fully set forth.

I11 the accompanying drawings, A denotes the seat, and B the fixed sides and back of the same.

0 are the seat-irons, which have extensions C',iprovided with holes 0, as shown more clearly in the detailed view, Fig. 4, of the drawings. The seat-sides are also provided with bracketirons D, which have similar holes or apertures, d.

L is the lazy-back, and F the rail for the same, whichis provided with screw-threaded lugs f, adapted to be inserted through the ap ertures c of the seat-irons, to which they are nutted by the thumb-nuts G.

. E is the top rail, which is provided with lateral arms I, to which the buggy-top is attached in the usual manner. The top rail, E, is provided with laterally-projecting lugs 71-, which are screw-threaded and inserted through the free ends of the rail F of the lazy-back, to which they are fastened by means of removable nuts H, of any desired construction.

From the foregoing description, taken in con nection with the drawings, the operation and advantages of our improvement will readily be understood without requiring lengthy explanation. It will be seen that by simply unscrewing the nuts G, the lazy-back, as well as the top rail, and the top attached thereto, may be removed from the seat in a moment of time and with very little trouble, while, by unscrewing the nuts H, the lazy-back may be detached from the top rail, if desired.

It is obvious that the lugs 71, for fastening the top rail to the lazy-back, may be welded to the rails of the'latter, instead of to the former, and inserted through and nutted to apertures in the top rail, E, if desired.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The, combination of the seat A, having seat-irons C and bracket-irons D, constructed as described, removable lazy -back L, provided with the rail F, having screw-threaded lugs f and nuts G, and top rail, E, having extensions I, and provided with the screw-threaded lugs h, having nuts H, the whole constructed and combined substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the top rail, E, having screw-threaded lugs h, lazy-back L, having rails F, perforated to receive the threaded lugs 71., and nuts H, substantially as and for the purpose shown and specified.

' In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signa tures in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL R. PARKER. PAUIJ-P. DEVENY.

Vitnesse's:

SHERMAN CULP, J. WV. BELL. 

